Tell Me You Really Didn't Say That!!

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer:  I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

- Mariah Carey

Smoking kills. If you are killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

-Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign

"That low-down scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."

- A Congressional candidate in Texas

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

-Mayor Marion Barry, Washington,D.C.

I don t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

- John Wayne

We re going to turn this team around 360 degrees."

- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

It isn't pollution that is harming the environment, it is the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.

- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fund-raising event for the United Negro College Fund. (He was attempting to quote the UNCF tagline, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste.")